Sprach‑ und Weltalternativen
- Multilingualism and the alternate history genre have something in common: both phenomena are based on the construction of alternatives, in the case of multilingualism on the alternatives between different languages and communication systems, and in the case of the alternate history genre on the alternatives between real-world facts and the variation thereof within fictional worlds. This article investigates the interconnections between these two forms of thinking in alternatives by looking specifically at Quentin Tarantino's counterfactual war film Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Christian Kracht's alternate history novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008). I argue that the consideration of language alternatives forms part of the meta-reflection of the alternate history genre in these works while at the same time opening up a political perspective: in Tarantino's film and Kracht's novel, multilingualism serves as a means for the critique of ideology by rendering palpable the political threats of a worldviewMultilingualism and the alternate history genre have something in common: both phenomena are based on the construction of alternatives, in the case of multilingualism on the alternatives between different languages and communication systems, and in the case of the alternate history genre on the alternatives between real-world facts and the variation thereof within fictional worlds. This article investigates the interconnections between these two forms of thinking in alternatives by looking specifically at Quentin Tarantino's counterfactual war film Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Christian Kracht's alternate history novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008). I argue that the consideration of language alternatives forms part of the meta-reflection of the alternate history genre in these works while at the same time opening up a political perspective: in Tarantino's film and Kracht's novel, multilingualism serves as a means for the critique of ideology by rendering palpable the political threats of a worldview based on clear-cut alternatives. In the article's final section, I plead for the establishment of stronger links between the research on literary multilingualism and the theory of fiction.…
| Author details: | Michael NavratilGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.12697/IL.2020.25.2.20 |
| ISSN: | 1406-0701 |
| ISSN: | 2228-4729 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Interlitteraria : Tartu Ülikooli Maailmakirjanduse Õppetooli ja Eesti Võrdleva Kirjandusteaduse Assotsiatsiooni aastakiri |
| Subtitle (German): | Mehrsprachigkeit als Ideologiekritik in kontrafaktischen Werken von Quentin Tarantino und Christian Kracht |
| Publisher: | Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus |
| Place of publishing: | Tartu |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/12/31 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/01/12 |
| Tag: | Christian Kracht; German studies; Quentin; Tarantino; alternate history; counterfactual fiction; film studies; multilingualism; political; theory of fiction; writing |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 18 |
| First page: | 522 |
| Last Page: | 539 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
| DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
